Neville Page On Bringing The Green Lantern Corps And Parallax To Life On The Big Screen!

Neville Page On Bringing The Green Lantern Corps And Parallax To Life On The Big Screen!

The acclaimed concept artist talks more about his work on the movie, what the challenges of bringing the fantastical characters to life on the big screen are and reveals more about the huge amount of work being done on Parallax...

By JoshWilding - Dec 27, 2010 10:12 AM EST
Filed Under: Green Lantern
Source: Daemon's Movies



On What His Work With The Green Lantern Corps Actually Involved:

"I worked on the costume initially with Ngila Dickson, but I came in when she had really established it. So I just dabbled a bit with finding some details with her. So I can’t say that I was too instrumental in costume, but with regards to the Corps each of those aliens, the selected ones because there are many to choose from and we couldn’t do them all, they have their costumes, but it’s mostly that you do a cool creature and then essentially you dice it up graphically and you’ve got a costume. But it really wasn’t creating the base idea of the Green Lantern Corps."


On The Challenges Of Bringing The Characters To Life On The Big Screen:

"The challenge simply put is that you’re trying to be true to the franchise and the expectations of the fans so that when they see it they’re not disappointed. That’s important. They feel like you’ve breathed life into a character that’s only been a 2-D image. That’s the challenge, to be able to pull it off so that it feels viable. Because their hero characters and you have the eyes of the studio, the eyes of the franchise owners looking at those and wanting them to be perfect and everyone has their own mental interpretation of how you would take drawn characters and make them realistic."


On The Huge Amount Of Work That's Gone Into Designing Parallax:

"Everyone worked on Parallax on the production, I think. It’s such an important thing. I was very involved in coming up with my version of Parallax. Often times these movies are so collaborative that there a lot of hands involved and I’ve often equated it to a relay race where many people hold that baton at some point and each one of us carrying that baton is an aide to bring the one person through the finish line, but it’s just that often times the one person that carries the baton to the finish line tends to get most of the credit. I was very fortunate to carry many batons through ‘Green Lantern’, but Parallax is one of those things where many people held that baton. I have no idea how he actually looks now."


To read more about his work on the movie and a much longer interview about Tron: Legacy follow the link below. Green Lantern is directed by Martin Campbell and will be released in 3D on June 17, 2011 starring Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively and Mark Strong. Stay tuned to CBM for all the latest news on the highly anticipated flick.




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Scion
Scion - 12/27/2010, 10:34 AM
Paralax done ala Fox's Galactus
Lert
Lert - 12/27/2010, 10:38 AM
baton=5
Gunslinger
Gunslinger - 12/27/2010, 11:00 AM
You will have my baby
AlexdoxA
AlexdoxA - 12/27/2010, 11:57 AM
Green Lantern = Fail
AlexdoxA
AlexdoxA - 12/27/2010, 11:58 AM
@Arminies: Here, here!
the99comic
the99comic - 12/27/2010, 12:16 PM
everyone think green lantern movie is fail but when screen big cinema maybe surprised could awesome pretty or not
BigG
BigG - 12/27/2010, 12:18 PM
nice find dude
here's hoping green lantern is good; have high hopes 4 this movie, but the trailer put me off a bit...
still dude, if u got the chance check out my Justice League Fancast
Angelus
Angelus - 12/27/2010, 1:14 PM
Armaninies you misunderstand. It can be shit at Marvel(and always will be), and everything from Marvel is just that: shit.
DC however just makes things work and amazingly everything seem almost shining like platina and the heavier metals.
DC fanboys might be dumb, but fortunetly we have Marvel fanboys to make us seem smarter =)

Now, even if Parallax is a cloud I dont really care as long the film is good. I dont really know Galactus but I could easily see the parasitic fear entity as a cloud/metaphysical being. Anyways, DC is king.

BMP!
Angelus
Angelus - 12/27/2010, 1:39 PM
Oh yeah! The cat is out of the bag now! But seriously, you think mentioning the worst movies(Returns shouldnt be in there btw) really will over-shadow the good ones?
We will just have to see how this film pans out, and yeah, it will be amazing.

And btw Intruder:


BMP!
jazzman
jazzman - 12/27/2010, 2:17 PM
@Intruder

what about Watchmen, V for Vendetta, A History of Violence maybe they aint in the same universe as Superman, Batman etc but they are DC

marvel72
marvel72 - 12/27/2010, 3:00 PM
yellow smoke/cloud is so scary,like a piss coloured fart.
UncleDrew
UncleDrew - 12/27/2010, 3:29 PM
This is one of my favorite superheroes I'm just real iffy with the costume, I want it to be a little bit darker, just a little bit.
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dahamma
dahamma - 12/27/2010, 3:31 PM
LOL @marvelunviverse72!!, but yeah i hope he aint a cloud. Not too familiar with most things dc but i do know they can make parralax look freakin sweet if they wanted too. just plz no more clouds!!
marvel72
marvel72 - 12/27/2010, 3:47 PM
@ dahamma

mate i want the green lantern to be great but if they make parallax a f*cking yellow cloud i will f*cking lmao.
Joe6Pack74
Joe6Pack74 - 12/27/2010, 4:06 PM
This is one of the movies I am actually really looking forward to. Will be carrying a baton for this to next year.
TheSchemer
TheSchemer - 12/27/2010, 4:31 PM
If Parallax was worked on by 'everyone' I think he's gonna be a little more complex than a cloud.

And to be clear, Marvel Studios has only truly done the Iron Mans and Incredible Hulk, we can't count the others as they are at other studios.
jazzman
jazzman - 12/27/2010, 4:44 PM
@Intruder

this is a competition of how many Marvel movies out there. maybe Marvel got more movies done at different studios but remember alot of them turn out bad aswell.
darthbobtarkas
darthbobtarkas - 12/27/2010, 11:03 PM
this movie's fate was decided the day they cast Ryan Renolds and got the director of Zorro to make it. I love the character but I'm hating this. Warner Bros. is trying to make another Iron Man, which is wrong. GREEN LANTERN SHOULD BE GREEN LANTERN DAMMIT!!!!
jimdrums
jimdrums - 12/28/2010, 8:31 AM
Im looking forward to seeing this movie even though I not crazy about the costume....I dont mind a little bit of humor but not too much. Im crossing my fingers on this one.
tripttwe
tripttwe - 12/28/2010, 11:51 AM
LOL moment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4_-tB9k_kY
trytan
trytan - 1/2/2011, 9:51 PM
I dont think it's DC or Marvel sucking, it's the witers and directors. Marvel and DC have both put out some good films as well as the bad ones. As for a cloud, if Parallax DOES turn out to be a cloud then yes i'll be mad.
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